This stilt (a banded stilt, I think) is one of many now active at Lake Claremont.
Many of Perth’s “natural” places are in a sad state, degrading.
Lake Claremont is a happy exception.
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No great effort is required for an inner urban Perth resident to experience literally hundreds of pelican sightings in a single year.
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All photos taken today, June 26. The location is in inner suburbia – just 20 minutes (10 on a train, plus an easy 10 on foot) from Perth’s CBD.
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All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken April 2017, near West Leederville Railway Station, less than 3 kilometres from Perth GPO.
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There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet. A mere teaspoonful contains many miles of fungal filaments. All these work the soil, transform it, and make it so valuable for the trees.
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Happy New Year from Pelican Yoga. Read on and you’ll reap a Fiddlehead Fern musical reward…
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All pictures taken on a very short walk from Wrenwood Chalets, a few minutes drive from Augusta, and half an hour’s drive from Margaret River.
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More posts coming soon. (just back from a mostly offline fortnight and place)
Meanwhile, this is one of two simultaneous “showdowns at sunset”, witnessed on a short walk from our favourite place to stay in the Augusta-Margaret River area.
I particularly like the way the females show no apparent interest in the males’ bouts.
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Australia’s most widely-read author of literary fiction honeymooned here.
Not many years later – in 1984, I think – my beloved and I also “discovered” this glorious, singular place.
Few people know of its existence, but thousands of years ago Waychinicup had already been named.
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This single clump had eleven stalks and eighteen spider orchids.
Spring in Western Australia’s southwest is the greatest wildflower show on earth.
All photos in this post were taken on September 16, 2016, within a few metres of one road, a little off the Stirling Range’s eastern end.
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